The Veteran Cemetery Mapping Project (VCMP) is a grass roots movement whose mission is to locate the final resting spots of America's Veterans, document that information and location, and finally structure that data for inclusion into the Veteran Administration's Veteran Legacy Memorial (VLM) database.
Why are we doing the Project?
The National Cemetery Administration maintains two authoritative databases; the National Gravesite Locator and the Veteran Legacy Memorial. Veterans buried in national and state cemeteries are currently included in those databases. However; Veterans buried in city, private, family, and rural cemeteries are typically asbsent, especially before 1996, because of the use of paper records.